- We're going head to head to see who can build
the quietest keyboard ever.
Jake's got one hour and I've got 10.
- [Jake] Wait, I only have an hour?
- Yes, let's get started.
He thinks he's going to win, but he's going down.
We're both starting with the same keyboards.
And at the end, we'll see who wins.
There's a prize involved.
- [Jake] What's the prize?
You get to pick where we eat.
Time starts now.
- I gotta go! I got my keyboard here.
There's a lot of stuff I need to do. Let's get started.
- We both got the same keyboard, the LTC nimbleback.
It's like, this is what it sounds like stock.
(keyboard clicking)
Not the most quiet keyboard on the planet,
but you know what?
I'm going to be transforming this thing
into just wonderful goodness.
- First thing I've gotta do is take apart this keyboard.
Luckily Betty gave me the fancy iFixit toolkit.
- So what I'm left with is using the tools
that are provided in the box and you know how that goes.
It's not good.
Okay, okay.
So this keyboard actually comes with some nice tools.
I thought I was going to have to get arthritis or something.
Speed run!
(dramatic music)
Oh, I almost lost one.
- He's going to help me win. Don't worry.
Since I only had an hour, I bought some really good stuff.
She's definitely going down.
- My key caps are off.
There's no way he can win this though.
I literally modded 50 keyboards.
I made them all sound amazing.
And he's maybe modded one.
Okay. Two, two.
Let's give him some credit. Let's give him some credit.
We all know, you and me,
we all know who's going to win here.
- If you want a life hack,
pull the switches out and the key caps at the same time,
it will save you so much time.
I actually came up with a genius idea.
I'm going to turn off the AC because it gets really hot in
the studio with all the lights on.
She's going to be in there for 10 hours.
She's going to be, she's going to be getting hot.
I am not above sabotage.
- Let's go check up on him. He's got plenty of time.
How's it going in here, Mr. I don't got time to do anything?
Wow, taking your keyboard apart.
- You only gave me an hour.
Hey, is it feeling a little hot for you in there?
- What's that supposed to mean?
- So, he's actually more ahead than I thought he would be.
I thought I was speed running this, but I'm not.
Here; my silicone mixture.
And I haven't read the instructions yet.
So let's, let's do that.
- Got the silicone, in the case goes.
You want to see something really satisfying?
(music stops)
Whoa.
- Here's the case.
I need to blue tape any areas that I think
the mold will get into.
There's a lot of crevasses and I need to protect it from
oozing out of every hole.
45 minutes left!
- Okay. I added the foam and I know it doesn't look perfect,
but I have about 45 minutes left.
So I need to move on to the next thing fast.
I bought myself a nice pack of silence switches.
So these will be way more quiet than the red switches that
come into the keyboard, these ones.
Look how pretty they are.
They're so quiet.
(dramatic music)
(keyboard clicking softly)
- Side A, side B.
(liquid pouring)
All of A.
So now, it's red and white. I just mixed.
It's surprisingly, already starting to set.
I've actually gotten more than nine hours left.
So I'm just going to go and make fun of Jake.
- I hate to say it, but I got to spray lube these.
I don't have enough time to hand lube.
It'll get messy, so I'm headed outdoors
- For some reason, he's outside.
So I've got to go check out on him.
- [Betty] What is that?
- This right here? It's a lubricant.
- [Betty] Point it away, point it-- no!
(aerosol spraying)
- [Betty] So if you don't know what's going on here,
Jake is adding lube to switches to make them quiet in a
really fast, but also lazy way.
And it smells horrible. Just horrible.
It's also really messy and looks disgusting.
I don't know if he showed it to you,
but he added a ton of dielectric grease to the stabilizers
too, with a syringe.
- It was honestly like the most disgusting thing I've ever
done. Ugh.
Now, I have to spend like 10 minutes cleaning this up.
And I probably only have like 20 minutes left.
- I've got some switches,
some silent switches from Divinikey.
(switch clicking)
I mean, can you even hear them?
And I'm going to make them super quiet by thoroughly,
potentially over-lubing them.
Oh.
- [Betty] Five more seconds.
Five.
- [Jake] Wait!
- [Betty] One and three quarters.
Zero, time is up.
- What have you done so far?
- [Betty] One thing.
- It's an hour.
I've done all this and you've only done one thing?
- [Betty] I'm just gonna take my wonderful tool box back.
- [Jake] I see you have to hand lube your switches.
- They're going to sound better than yours,
Mr. I did an abominable thing to my switches.
- [Jake] Did you say indomitable?
I said abysmal.
Found this awesome video that's way more
important to the situation at hand, and it's called
lube keyboards switches fast 2021.
Apparently, there's a new method or something like that,
but I don't know why I need to lube them fast.
I have plenty of time.
You should have watched it.
At this point, I was really starting to regret
that I was stuck building this keyboard for 10 whole hours.
Lubing is exhausting, but it's even more exhausting
when Jake doesn't help me do it.
I also watched a ton of YouTube videos and ended up filming
the switches for maximum sound goodness.
I don't like that I have to do this for 10 hours,
but I know that with all this work,
I'm going to win this challenge,
and Jake's one hour keyboard is going down.
I'm so close to finishing my entire keyboard build and I
can't wait to be declared the winner of this
quietest keyboard challenge.
10 hours is a really long time.
I know I'm going to win the challenge and pick what we're
going to be eating tonight. Honestly,
I wish I had gone the one hour part of the deal,
because this is so tiring,
but there's a few more hours left,
so I've got to mod stabilizers.
I'm going to clip them, Bandaid mod them,
do all the good stuff and some extras too.
I took a nap and I modded my stabilizers
with every single mod under the sun.
And they're really quiet.
And I put my switches in.
No one has 24 hours to let their silicone mold cure,
So it's good enough.
I poured too much, and now we're doing surgery.
I'm a master at this.
Yeah, I sharpen my own knives.
(battle music)
Ah, I'm bleeding!
Surgery is complete. Extra fat has been removed.
Surgery was a success, the patient has survived.
It sticks out this much.
- [Jake] Wait, what?
- It won't go down.
- [Jake] Is that blood?
- No, it's just extra silicone, see. It comes right off.
I'm pushing the boundaries of science.
It actually closes, that's pretty crazy.
Now, for the key caps.
Just ignore the extra silicone around it everywhere.
These key caps are special.
Are the kinetic labs octopus.
because octopuses make zero noise.
And there's a bonus. O rings.
We are super close to the end.
(intense music)
- I'm finished. I was just cleaning up.
My keyboard is better than your keyboard.
- [Jake] Why does it, why does it look like that?
- Because octopuses.
- This is my keyboard, the superior one.
- And this is Betty's.
You know, it looks pretty good,
but you don't really know what it actually sounds like
til we test it out, so.
Here's mine.
(keys clicking)
It's pretty good.
Oh, sh--
(Betty laughing)
- Why is it that yours is so quiet?
Wait, what?
- [Betty] Do you want to know what I did? O rings.
- Oh, the O rings, that's what it is.
- [Betty] The O rings!
- It was definitely the O rings that did it.
- It's my turn to take a look at these quiet keyboards
and use mine first, cause I know it's better.
And now yours.
Your space bar doesn't move.
- [Jake] It's lubed, okay?
- Lubed.
It literally doesn't move.
- [Jake] It does. It's moving.
I see nothing wrong with that.
- It doesn't bounce back.
- [Jake] It does, you just have to give it a second.
- I'm going to say,
it is pretty obvious who's the winner here.
Me.
But then again, I did get 10 hours.
- Plus, your keyboard smells.
- [Jake] Oh, god.
- It smells so bad.
- [Jake] It does smell really bad.
It smells like burnt plastic.
- Ugh. I am the winner!
I pick where we eat tonight, let's do sushi.
(keys clicking)
- [Betty] My soup.
Oh, yeah.